Hello!
After Phoebe posted her experience about her TrackMania ²: Canyon, i decided to post my experience with TrackMania in general. Because at the 12th November 2008 ... I discovered the TrackMania universe. And i love Nadeo for this games in any decade.
2008
I was 9 years old and i walked to my local electronic store with my dad. There i saw some new games like Mirror´s Edge, Need for Speed, Call of Duty and ... TrackMania Original and Sunrise. The covers looked so cool and i asked my dad to buy me those 2 games. He decided to do that, if i make some dishes for 2 weeks. I said yes and i got them. And hell! - i loved the games. It was hard to play in the first hours, but i got more into it and after some months i was really good. I played against many people from the school and beat the shit out of them.
And at Christmas i got the best racing game pack that was out there ... TrackMania United. With this nice fancy cover i can´t say no and wrote my note to Santa Claus that i wanted TMU so much ... And i got it, and i was flashed about the whole package of 7 (!) enviroments, all with different styles and physics, and i was playing TMU the whole christmas time.
2009 - 2011
This was a very hard part of my life. After some depression attacks i decided to kill myself. Luckily, I was stopped by my parents and got in a psychiatry. But not with my Nintendo DS, that i got with 10 in the christmas 2009 and - who have thought - TrackMania DS! It was fresh out of the BOSCH oven and i played it many hours where i was depressive the whole time. TrackMania saved me from boredom and from severe depressive attacks. And was my anchor from sliding back in the suicidal thoughts.
In 2011 where i lost my PC i walked with my dad to the CEBIT, a IT fair in Hannover, where i live. And there i discovered TrackMania ²: Canyon. I was excited because i never thought there was a new game from nadeo and i played the beta version almost 2 hours there. And there i beaten everyone ... easy. ^^
To the christmas 2011 i got a new PC with ... you thought it already ... a fresh copy from TrackMania ²: Canyon! I loved the graphics and the new gameplay style of the game, so many possibilities was in this one game!
2012 - 2016
In this time i forgot the TrackMania universe. I thought i was done with TrackMania because i dont wanted to play it and turned to other games like NFS or Battlefield, Call of Duty and some indie games. I was not interested in this game anymore. And i thought, it would not change.
And then .. We come to the glorious years...2016 - 2018.
There i discovered some nice cinematic videos from mah boi DaniXks and i was interested in the game series again. I bought TrackMania²: Stadium and Valley and, to complete my CD covers in my bookshelf, bought TrackMania: Original, TrackMania Sunrise: Extreme, TrackMania United Forever and TrackMania: Nations ESWC (yes, you can buy the game on Amazon XD). Then, thanks to my 4Head, i lost my account data for TMUF and my game key and so i stucked on TrackMania ². And holy, i had many things to catch up. I discovered ManiaPark with all his skins, items and mods for all enviroments. I downloaded all of them that i liked and ... never used them because im terrible at map building XDD
I painted my own cars ingame, i collect some medals, downloaded titlepacks ... And discovered the machinima part of the game for me.
After seeing some edits from DaniXks, MCYC and WASIMo4 (now wasimo xd) i decided to give it a try. And after pre-ordering TrackMania: Turbo i made my first edit ever ... NEO NITRO. It was a ripoff of the unfinished "TRIO" from Ozon, but a little bit of this made out of my mind. I was happy until i got the messages like "It is a TRIO ripoff". And then i tried to make something myself without ripping off from anyone. I made some chill canyon shots, skin showcases and little test videos. Then, for no reason, i lost my YouTube channel. And there was no chance to recover from it. So i made a new channel and continued. And this channel got deleted again. I was frustrated and wanted to throw this idea directly in the trash can. In this time i got my heavy depressions back and headed toward the psychiatry agains ... for 7 months. After that time i bought a new PC. Then i give them a last shot...And created my last and actual youtube channel. And in this whole time i found various friends from the TM community, i joined the Smurfs, i make things for TMOne, a high-quality team of people that remake the TMU enviroments and many more people. And im glad that i met all people here. I made my cinematic edits there on my channel, got many positive feedback and i was happy that i joined the TM community. WASIMo, DaniXks, florenzius, eyebo, BushMonkey, riolu, Mekh, Toyeca, Anto, kornelius, MTKD, ziyx, Grouph, Zyra, TMCharly, forever, MCYC, ThaumicTom, Snake55Wildcat ... And that are only few of the dudes i loved since i joined the TM Community.
I got my depressive attacks back, but i was able to recover from that, only because of this great community.
And now? I made several movies, do some work for the community, play many TM and was glad that i was back on the TM game train.
I thank all people that i met in this whole time and i love you all so much. Auf gute weitere 10 Jahre!
My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
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My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
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Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
Story day, yay!
I'm happy you still around and kickin'. Keep it up!
I'm happy you still around and kickin'. Keep it up!
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Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
Thanks!
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Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
Great post Timania!
Thanks for making such awesome stuff and always be as helpfull as you are.
But most of all, thanks for being around!
Greetz,
Thanks for making such awesome stuff and always be as helpfull as you are.
But most of all, thanks for being around!
Greetz,
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Thank you, im glad to be here!
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Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
It's nice to be included in the list at the end of the post
Very interesting story of how you came to TM and how it's helped you through the years. Very brave of you to share it with others. It reminds me of the old axiom, "Be kind to everyone, because you never know what someone is going through."
Glad to have you as part of the community!
Very interesting story of how you came to TM and how it's helped you through the years. Very brave of you to share it with others. It reminds me of the old axiom, "Be kind to everyone, because you never know what someone is going through."
Glad to have you as part of the community!
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Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
Timania,
There are two major ways of dealing with depressions.
1) Fixing the core reason
2) avoid the reason, escape and play computer (or drugs or being a criminal etc)
Decision 2) is easier. I took the same path when I was young. Right now, I am taking path 1). The harder one. But it doesn't matter which path you take as long as you are happy. It's your life, you chose what you want to do and who you want to be.
And if you need someone to talk, I live 30min away from you
Good night
There are two major ways of dealing with depressions.
1) Fixing the core reason
2) avoid the reason, escape and play computer (or drugs or being a criminal etc)
Decision 2) is easier. I took the same path when I was young. Right now, I am taking path 1). The harder one. But it doesn't matter which path you take as long as you are happy. It's your life, you chose what you want to do and who you want to be.
And if you need someone to talk, I live 30min away from you
Good night
Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
Ok, i just found this and i'm almost a year late but I just wanted to say thank you for the post. It makes me feel better to know that i might have helped you a little.
Stay strong boy and don't forget to love yourself!
Stay strong boy and don't forget to love yourself!
Re: My 10 years with TrackMania ... A love at first sight.
TM Community is something special, something i have never found in 40 plus years of gaming, do not get me wrong i have many friends around the world across multi consoles and pc.
But TM is different, i will enjoy gaming on tm till i am forced away from it over time to come..
I have my own problems going on in the real world must of my tm friends all know about them.
without them and my gaming life i am sure i would not be here writing this now to yous.
So much love for Dev's at Nadeo/Ubisoft and its Community
But TM is different, i will enjoy gaming on tm till i am forced away from it over time to come..
I have my own problems going on in the real world must of my tm friends all know about them.
without them and my gaming life i am sure i would not be here writing this now to yous.
So much love for Dev's at Nadeo/Ubisoft and its Community
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